Corn husking machine



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W. WASHINGTON.

CORN HUSKING MACHINE.

No. 283.173. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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CORN-HUSKINTG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,173, dated August 14, 1883.

Application filed May it, 1883. (No model.)

ence marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which- Figure'l is an elevation of one sideof the Fig. 2 is a section taken longitudinally and vertically through the improved machine, in the plane indicated by dotted line as as, Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a section taken vertically and transversely through the machine, as indicated by dotted line .70 a: on Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is a top view of the machine. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the stripper detached from the main parts of the machine.

My invention relates tocorn-husking 1nachinery; and. it consists in certain novel devices, which will be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings. v

A designates the main frame of the machine, and B the main driving-shaft, to which motion may be communicated by means of abelt or otherwise. wheels, GO, and grooved pulleys a a, and to wrist-pins eccentrically fixed to the faces of the said wheels are applied the rear ends of pitman-rods G C, the front ends of which are 3 5 jointed to the rod 0 of two swinging arms, 0 0

These arms are hung from pivots b, which are free to slide in slots formed in two arms, A A, of the mainframe. The horizontal transverse rod 0, to which the front ends of the pitinan-rods are pivoted, has also pivoted to it the front ends of two pitn1an-rods, D D, which are pivoted to short arms D, that are fixedto the stripper E. Below the rod 0, andrigidlysecuredto the front end of the main frame A, at the middle of the width thereof, is an arm, A, to which is pivoted one end of a lever, d, the lowerend of which is pivotedto the rod F of a follower or feeding-head, F, which receives a rectilinear reciprocating motion in an inclined slatted trough, G. The lever (Z extends above the arm Onthis shaft '13 are keyed two A, and this arm is vibrated by contact with the reciprocating rod 0, which movement is transmitted to the rod F an d its follower. The ears of corn in the hush are fed up to and through the stripper E by the devices above described. The stripper consists of two arms, E, which are notched upon guideways A, a central ring -frame, and a concentrically-ar- "ranged series of beveled spring stripping-teeth, 6.; The cars of corn are fed into the trough G through a chute, H, and forced through the reciprocating stripper by the follower. At the rear or lowest end of the open slatted trough G is a fixed jaw, G, above which and guided by vertically-slotted pieces I I, rigidly secured to the main frame, is a sash, J, having a concave holdingjaw, J, secured to it. This sash 1's hungfrom thefree end of a spring, S, by

cords t t t, and this sash has arms S S projecting from each end of it, which are struck by the pitman-rods G Gwhile they are descending and during the recession of the strippen and depressed, thereby causing the jaw J to hold the ear of corn by its stem while the husk is stripped from it. Belts g g are passed around pulleys a a, and also around pulleys c a on the shaft K of a driving spur-wheel, k. i

This spur-wheel engages with a similar spurwheel, k, 011 a shaft, K, to which power is applied to drive the machine, which power is transmitted through the belts and pulleys above described to the shaft Bof wheels 0 C.

It will be'observed from the above descrip tion that the corn in the husk is fed, butts fore most, through a chute and discharged there-- from into the trough G, then forced partly through the stripper by the follow er F, gripped between the fixed jaw G and the holding-jaw J, then stripped by the strippingfingers 0 during the recession of the stripper, and discharged from the machine between the jawsJ G when the sash J is raised.

Having described my invention,what I claim.

as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, .is

1." The combination of a trough, G, a reciprocating stripper having spring-fingers, aws J G, and afollower, all. constructed and adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination of a trough, G, a feeding-chute, a circular reciprocating stripper having spring-fingers, jaws J G, a spring, S, connecting-rods O, a follower, the connectingrod 0, and lever d, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described.

3. The' combination of a movable sash having laterally-projecting arms and a holdingjaw, a, fixed jaw, rods 0, the follower, the stripper provided with arms D, the connecting-rod a, the pitman-rods D, and the trough in which the stripper and follower reciprocate, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described.

4. The combination of the Vertically-mova his \VADE \VASHINGTON.

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\Vitnesses:

WV. E. PARSONS, E. S. DOOLIT'ILE. 

